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F. HEAV'ENER.

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Patented March 22,1881.

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ATTORNEYS.

` WITNBSSBS UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

FLOYD HEAVENER, .OF DENVER, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND J. W.COLLINS, OF LARAMIE CITY, WYOMING TERRITORY.

C HAIR-BRACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,246, dated March22, 1881.

Application filed September 9, 1880- (No model.)

To' all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FLOYD HEAVENER, ofDenver, inthe county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado, have inventedanew and Improved Chair-Brace; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the saine,reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings, forming part ot' thisspecification, in.which- 1o Figure l is a side elevation; Fig. 2, anundernea-th view. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation.

The object ot' my invention is to provide a set of' braces for a chairwhich shall hold the legs, back, and seat rnily together against i 5 anytendency to loosen or become separated.

lt consist-s in combining with the chair two wires runnin g t'roni thecross-bar of the back of the chair down through the seat, and thence tothe front corners of the seat and up through 2o the same, over whichwires two other wires are strained, which pass from the two hind legs tothe two fore legs, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, A represents an ordinary fornnof chair whose back iscomposed otl a cross-bar at the top and rounds connecting the same tothe seat. Through the cross-bar at the top ot' the back are run twowires, c a, which have heads at their upper ends, and

3c pass down the back on each side thereof and through the seat,underneath which they are twisted together to form an X, (see Fig. 2,)and then extended to the front corners of the seat,and up through thesaine to the 3 5 upper surface, where they are provided with heads. lf,however, the chairbe an arm-chair, these ends are not allowed toterminate at the seat, but extend up through the seat to the arms, inwhich armsthe ends are held by 4o heads, as aforesaid. At the point b,where the two wires a, a are twisted together beneath the seat, twoother wires, c c, are twisted together to form an X, and looped over thepart b, so as to strain the wires a a downwardly.

These wires c c have heads at their ends, and

pass from the hind legs over the twisted portion b, and then to thefront legs, the heads of these wires being embedded on the outsidesurface.

In order to tighten the brace, the wires c 5o are rst laid across thesection b and then twisted ou each side of the same, and then, ifnecessary to keep the last two Wires from untwisting, a piece of wire,e, is extended `through the loops formed by the object which was used totwist the wires. By means of this arrangement ot wires it will be seenthat the chair is braced in all directions, and there is no chance forany ofthe parts to become separated.

Having thus described my invention, what I 6o claim as new isl. Thecombination, with the back, seat, and legs of a chair, of the two wiresa a, extending from the top of the hack down through seat, and up againthrough the seat, and a second pair of wires, c c, looped over theirstmentioned wires beneath Vthe seat, and connecting' the four legs ofthe chair, substantially as shown and described.

2.v The combination, with the back, seat, and 7o legs of a chair, of thetwo wires a a, extending from the back down through the seat, andcrossed and twisted to forni sections b, and then fastened to the seat,and the two wires c c, also crossed and twisted and looped over thesection b, and connecting the four legs, as described.

8. The combination, with the legs, the seat, and the back ot' a chair,of four wires, twisted in pairs and connected together beneath the 8oseat of the chair, and having one set of ends extending downwardly tothe four legs of the chair, and the other set of ends extended upthrough the seat and the back of the chair, substantially as described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 31st day ofAugust, 1880.

FLOYD HEAVENER.

Witnesses WALTERA SINGLAIR, I. P. CALDWELL.

